# Feeding the Troops **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2013, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeding-the-troops/666413 "2013-08-16T14:47:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeding-the-troops/666413/21 "2013-08-17T20:12:24Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > Mushrooms, Chicken Breasts, and Sirloin are all now marinating in a teriyaki marinade. I opted for Sirloin even though Rib Eye was on sale because Sirloin was still $2 less per pound. > > Onions and green peppers will be cut soon. I’m doing the tomatoes separately since they often turn to mush by the time other things are cooked. White Rice, and Long Grain and Wild Rice on the side. Watermelon for desert. > > I’m still debating if I should make southern style green beans to go with it. My wife is gone and she won’t eat them but I love them (she has some strange northern aversion to things cooked in bacon fat). I chop some bacon, fry it in a pot, add chopped onions, then the beans and chicken broth. Add some red pepper flakes cook way too long, and I’m in heaven. > > Oh, and **DMark’s** suggestion is pretty much the standard when we have to serve them lunch. They will LOVE IT!! And yes. **You should do the green beans.** Add some sugar and vinegar to it at the end and sautee it for a little bit - it’s even more wonderful! I steam 'em in chicken stock, then when they’re done, throw 'em in a frying pan with crisped up bacon, vinegar and a little suger - they’re wonderful! My Sister In Law said - and she was 50 at the time - that she never would eat green beans before until she had mine so teach these children early that everything - yes EVERYTHING - is better with bacon fat. 😃 Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! And PS - it ain’t a “Northerner thing” - I’m from the SW Suburbs of Chicago - there’s just something wrongly WIRED about people who don’t like bacon! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeding-the-troops/666413/22 "2013-08-18T00:17:32Z")
They were a HUGE hit. I heard the words “awesome” and “amazing” used. As usual, I got home later than expected and still had to assemble the Kebabs… I did the steak ones first, using 2 sirloins (meat I already cubed and marinated). I think I ended up with 20 skewers all nicely varied with onions, green peppers, meat, and mushrooms. When I finally got done and was ready to start the chicken I decided “screw it” and they were assembled… Pepper, onion, chicken, chicken, chicken… chicken, chicken, onion, pepper. After all, I realized I wasn’t doing it for a fancy gathering, but rather a bunch of boys who’s only thoughts are “FOOD… Me Eat NOW!”. So 20 steak (and vegies), and 4 chicken it was. Good thing because my grill was full. Worked out well too because one of the boys apparently doesn’t like peppers, onions, or mushrooms, and LOVES chicken. He thought I made them special just for him. Just have to feed them in the morning and they are gone. One of them though may try to come back… he was being texted by one of the girls my son introduced him to and seemed really excited about it. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeding-the-troops/666413/23 "2013-08-18T00:29:18Z")
Oh yeah… didn’t do the green beans. I really wanted to but just didn’t have time. My wife loves bacon, but for some reason the drippings gross her out. Being a good girl from Wisconsin she loves butter and just doesn’t get that they are pretty much the same. Also, for her the beans should crunch (she likes them steamed for about 3 nano-seconds)… not the way I was raised. Mine simmer for a few hours or until you can’t wait any longer. (ok, maybe nano-seconds and hours are a slight exaggeration) ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeding-the-troops/666413/24 "2013-08-18T04:13:38Z")
Oh to have their metabolism again… They left here after the Kabobs and went fishing with friends… then to Orange Leaf (an Ice Cream place)… then stopped at Taco Bell on the way home… and came home and headed straight to the refrigerator. No idea what they are eating, but I’m hearing the microwave beeping. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeding-the-troops/666413/25 "2013-08-18T04:52:17Z")
Teen boys? Check on the cats. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeding-the-troops/666413/26 "2013-08-18T06:13:19Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > Oh yeah… didn’t do the green beans. I really wanted to but just didn’t have time. > > My wife loves bacon, but for some reason the drippings gross her out. Being a good girl from Wisconsin she loves butter and just doesn’t get that they are pretty much the same. Also, for her the beans should crunch (she likes them steamed for about 3 nano-seconds)… not the way I was raised. Mine simmer for a few hours or until you can’t wait any longer. (ok, maybe nano-seconds and hours are a slight exaggeration) Try having grown up in a house with a mother that cooks old style German, and loving a spread that is fine dice apples and pork cracklings in the fat rendered from the cracklings [damned if I can remember what the proper name for it is, it was just apple spread at home] and having a houseguest open the jar in my fridgerator and throw it away because they never saved bacon pan drippings and it ‘looked nasty’ ☹ I also like ‘salo’ which is cured raw pork fat you slice and eat [I like it on a good rye sourdough with maybe a dab of mustard and sliced onion] There is a lot of ‘old country’ foods that kids consider gross that is wonderfully tasty. I had a roomie with a kid, at the time he was 9 years old. We made old style greens with fatback and his friend from down the road thought it was seriously gross - but then again his new stepmother was trying to turn him vegan. She had him convinced anything that came from a pig was contaminated by garbage. We couldn’t convince him that to be sold in a store the pig couldn’t be fed garbage, the food inspectors wouldn’t allow it. wouldn’t allow it. More greens for me 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeding-the-troops/666413.md?page=1)